The gear includes armored personnel carriers, cargo and patrol vehicles, binoculars, night vision goggles and small patrol boats, said Eileen Lainez, a Pentagon spokeswoman. The equipment is valued at $8 million and follows a similar $7 million package of equipment shipped in April.

Earlier on Friday, the Pentagon also announced a proposed $19 million aid package to help train Ukraine's National Guard forces. The money will help train four companies of soldiers and a headquarters element, Navy Rear Adm. John Kirby said.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 57590262

Great news for NAF. At least half of the toys will end up in their hands shortly thereafter.

Such a blatant lies about militia killing its own civilians. This is from the same source telling us that Russians burned themselves in Odessa. Shitstorm of lies of junta trying to conceal its own atrocities.

Two things get my attention:- You hear the full array of nazi slogans, including Moskalei na noji ("kill Muscovites with knives"), Slava natzii - smert vorogam, etc. - The crowd is small, apparently nazis can no longer gather a mass rally. Good news.

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Sounds like a tribesmen war chant, how primitive.

"So you mean to say they've taken what we thought we think and make us think we thought our thoughts we've been thinking our thoughts we think we thought?"

Two things get my attention:- You hear the full array of nazi slogans, including Moskalei na noji ("kill Muscovites with knives"), Slava natzii - smert vorogam, etc. - The crowd is small, apparently nazis can no longer gather a mass rally. Good news.

Sentenced in absentia by the Tbilisi court, so he is now officially "on-the-run".

Apparently he and the other Georgians really jarred Poroshenko's nerves when they were in Kiev - and the White House too (McCain excepted) because he was pushing to back Putin into a corner with no opportunity for compromise - i.e. pushing us ALL into a war.

Neither Poroshenko nor the Americans want a war, but Saakashvili and his gang were doing all they could to thwart any chance of a compromise.

Sentenced in absentia by the Tbilisi court, so he is now officially "on-the-run".

Apparently he and the other Georgians really jarred Poroshenko's nerves when they were in Kiev - and the White House too (McCain excepted) because he was pushing to back Putin into a corner with no opportunity for compromise - i.e. pushing us ALL into a war.

Neither Poroshenko nor the Americans want a war, but Saakashvili and his gang were doing all they could to thwart any chance of a compromise.

what a contradiction..you'd think his dad would have explained the situation or else he just doesn't give a shit. or maybe Ron Paul really does think Kiev had nothing to do with shooting down the plane idk. Personally, I don't trust either one of them.

USA: "Sanctions will only work if you get the Europeans involved" - Rand Paul

Ron Paul: Why is US involved in Ukraine?

The United States is being hypocritical in its response to the armed clashes between Kiev and pro-Russian groups in eastern Ukraine, former Congressman Ron Paul wrote in a new column.

In the column, published by the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, the former libertarian lawmaker questioned the American role in the conflict unfolding in Ukraine, criticizing the US for blaming recent outbreaks of violence on Russian sympathizers rather than the Ukrainian military.

The column comes just a few days after the Ukrainian military killed about 20 people in Mariupol, where the country's Interior Ministry claimed that pro-Russia militants attempted to seize the local police building. Residents in the area, meanwhile, stated that local police did not want to take orders from Kiev, and that sparked a response by the military that ended up engulfing outsiders who arrived in support of the officers.

PM Warns Nato 'Russia Could Be A Threat'David Cameron says Nato must rethink its relationship with Moscow and be ready to respond quickly to any show of force.Nato must bolster its military presence in eastern Europe so it could respond quickly to any threat from Russia, David Cameron has warned.

ROSTOV-ON-DON, August 2 (RIA Novosti) – Nine shells have been fired from Ukraine’s Grad multiple rocket launchers, according to preliminary reports, and exploded on the territory of Tarasovsky District in Russia’s Rostov Region, Vasily Malev, a representative of the Russian Security Service in the Rostov Region told RIA Novosti Saturday.

“Nine craters were detected in the area of the Mityakinskaya village [Rostov Region]. The fragments of shells presumably indicate that they were fired from Grad multiple rocket launchers,” Malev said.

MOSCOW, August 2 (RIA Novosti) – A group of 70 international experts and eight monitors arrived on Saturday at the Malaysian passenger plane crash site in eastern Ukraine, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) has said.

“SMM monitors (8) have arrived at #MH17 site w/70 experts + detector dogs. Long day ahead intensive work focused on recovery victim remains,” the organization said in its Twitter microblog.